Christopher Nolan says he was blown away by Cillian Murphy's performance in Oppenheimer. In the new cover feature of Total Film magazine, which goes into detail about the making of the historical epic, Nolan shares why the Peaky Blinders actor was right for the role.
"In truth, there are just not that many actors that you could say, on a first-person approach, 'Yeah, we’re going to be this guy for three hours,'" Nolan tells TF in its new issue – which is out on newsstands on May 25. "You’re making a demand of an actor that very few actors in the history of film can rise to. I will say that even with that confidence in him, he was continually surprising me on set every day. And when we got into the edit suite and were putting the performance together, and seeing the truth of it, I was absolutely blown away."
